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Legal aid reforms scrapped by Michael Gove as he is besieged by 99 court challenges

Lawyers had protested and gone on strike in response to the planned cuts.

Amazingly, Michael Gove is actually making sense.

Iain Duncan Smith should take notice.

Where Gove is ending a policy in order to relieve the public of the cost of expensive litigation, the Gentleman Ranker is happy to rack up those costs in support of his own, potentially fatal, schemes.

A major restructuring of the criminal legal aid system in England and Wales has been scrapped, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed.

Mr Gove said he had “decided not to go ahead” with plans to cut duty solicitor contracts at police stations and magistrates’ courts by two thirds.

2 thoughts on “Legal aid reforms scrapped by Michael Gove as he is besieged by 99 court challenges”

Gove is terrified, he has already scrapped a books ban on prisoners, but the money they would lose is scaring them stupid, though they are already. The amount of money they have wasted, and not just on this, but universal credit and the bedroom tax, already could put many problems in this country’s infrastructure right overnight without any pain at all and most of the people could be happy (a little at least).

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